Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Alocasia sanderiana
alocasia, Kris plant
Moderately robust herb to 60 cm tall; stem decumbent to creeping, ca. 15 cm long, ea. 2 cm thick; leaves solitary to few together, interspersed with cataphylls. Inflorescence mostly paired (GBIF, 2023).
It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome (POWO, 2023).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Arales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Alocasia
Species
sanderiana
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2007
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Philippines (POWO, 2023).
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2022) Plants of the world online POWO (2022): Plants of the world online. Published on the Internet; Https://powo.science.kew.org/
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"Galapagos Species Database, Alocasia sanderiana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2131. Accessed 30 April 2025.